India, Aug. 26 -- With the deadline to submit the draft of the new wards for public's suggestions and objections drawing close - September 4 - a war has broken out among the Mahayuti alliance partners, as also between the ruling coalition and the Opposition. Everyone is out to mark their territory, their eyes peeled on how the fresh lines of demarcation are being made.

The stakes are high, as the long-awaited civic body elections will follow the assembly elections of 2024, in which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Mahayuti made a clean sweep. The civic body polls are significant for both the ruling alliance and Opposition for a show of strength and expansion of individual parties locally. Ward formation is crucial as neighbourhoods a...